Experimental Electronic Music
Highlighting hundreds of releases in 2024 (and allowing December to set in), we’ve compiled a list of our favorites along with links to their corresponding Igloo reviews and release pages. Since the lists are arranged alphabetically by artist—and a snapshot of tracks are featured in our Soundcloud playlist along with selected Bandcamp tracks and random artwork selections—there are, as usual, no winners or runners-up.
“Suumhow is what happens when two childhood friends who discovered electronic music together in their teens and then reunite 20 years later.” On the heels of their 5th album, appropriately titled 5ilth—available on n5MD October 25, 2024—Suumhow took some time out of their schedule to discuss the good old days of IDM, their backgrounds, processes, and beautifully choreographed sonic glitches.
After covering several hundred releases in 2023, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
Where earlier notable artists such as Funckarma, Funkstörung, Gescom, and Proem are touching points, Suumhow successfully shape their sound as the new benchmark connecting them together.
The myriad of disheveled electronics carves a unique pathway Suumhow embodies—crafting compelling yet arcane music that is timeless, these are sandblasted IDM morsels from Brussels.
Through it all, n5MD‘s music has retained essential qualities that keep its roster in heavy rotation and every new release worthy of attention: massively talented […]
Oakland based electronic music label n5MD to release a charity compilation for their twentieth anniversary to benefit the Cystinosis Research Foundation. Commemorating n5MD’s 20th Anniversary […]
As the strides of 90’s IDM and ambient techno have been digested by contemporary producers, the lessons taken from that period of experimentation and glitchiness […]
Such diversity in Suumhow’s experimentation makes Secuund an excellent listen for fans of late 90s, early ought IDM, glitch, and ambient. Summhow’s Secuund will be […]
